[mythtv-users] Small, low cost MythTV clients...

[Jason Sullivan]

On 5/1/07, stuart <stuart at xnet.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> There are a number of threads on this subject.  Instead of hijacking one
> I thought I would start my own.  Some (maybe, a lot of ??) people are
> anticipating the Apple TV to be understood to the point where mythTV
> client applications may be installed.  This puts the price for such a
> device at at least $300 if I'm not mistaken.  However, from time to
> time, you can purchase Galaxy 3500 IPTV (caution, these boxes are very
> closely named and there has been confusion which is which) for less than
> $200.

A bit of reading on the Galaxy website shows that these devices already do UPnP.

http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Products/3500IPTV.html

So with a UPnP enabled MythTV backend, they should "just work", just
not as a mythTV frontend.  If you wanted to run the frontend on the
box, someone would have get one to see how much horsepower was inside,
as the specs on the webpage don't lend much of a clue.

The other things it doesn't say, besides raw horsepower: how much
onboard memory, and the video chipset.  Those determine if it's even
possible to run the frontend on the machine.
Other questions that come to mind are: Can it netboot?  Could I slip a
hard-drive in it?  The answer to both might be "yes", but it's hard to
tell how much hacking would be required.

I looked around for a dissasembley article, but nothing showed up immediately.

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Jason Sullivan
jason0x21 at gmail.com